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[Anonymous No.20230328]

>“All the same it is a good thing to have a grandfather who was a Republican,” the
woman said. “It shows a good blood.”
>“My grandfather was on the Republican national committee,” Robert Jordan said. That
impressed even Maria.
>“And is thy father still active in the Republic?” Pilar asked.
>“No. He is dead.”
>“Can one ask how he died?”
>“He shot himself.”
>“To avoid being tortured?” the woman asked.
>“Yes,” Robert Jordan said. “To avoid being tortured.”
What is the significance of this?

[Anonymous No.20230415]

>>20230328
Hemingway was the biggest mummy's boy imaginable so he invariably had daddy issues. He tended to vicariously live through his protagonists by inserting bits of his own life such as his father killing himself, you can probably do the rest from there.